If implemented, the Russian arms sale proposal would actually provide an important new rationale and financial underpinning for the old Soviet military-industrial complex -- an organization that it is in the interest of both the Russian people and our own to see dramatically reduced in scope and productivecapacity.

And what has made it possible to harness the incredible productivecapacity of the American people -- the greatest economic force in the history of the world -- has been a free market where people can pursue their dreams, their goals and their happiness, and where you can take charge of your own destiny.

Apart from belatedly cleansing the constitution of unseemly clauses, aboriginal leaders argue a yes vote would boost their people's self-esteem, and hence their capacity to become more productive citizens.

Eventually society exhausts the carrying capacity of the truly productive and leverages itself with so much debt that the private economy is crowded out or manipulates the medium of exchange in a way that destroys the purchasing power of working class people.

The memos released yesterday are designed to show that Winnick knew Global Crossing (otc: GBLXQ - news - people )--like many other telecommunications companies--would inevitably collapse in the wake of a huge buildup in capacity, just a fraction of which would ever be put to productive use.